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Glückel of Hameln

German writer and businesswoman · Germany · Writers · Lived 1646 to 1724 · aged 78

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Glückel of Hameln was a German Jewish businesswoman and diarist. Written in her native tongue of Western Yiddish over the course of thirty years, her memoirs were originally intended to be an ethical will for her children and future descendants.

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Glückel of Hameln was a German Jewish businesswoman and diarist. Written in her native tongue of Western Yiddish over the course of thirty years, her memoirs were originally intended to be an ethical will for her children and future descendants. Glückel's diaries are the only known pre-modern Yiddish memoirs written by a woman. The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln provide an intimate portrait of German-Jewish life between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and have become an important source for historians, philologists, sociologists, literary critics, and linguists.

Country
Germany
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1646 to 1724 · aged 78

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